Bug#468759: lintian: Please check encoding of doc-base files
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.45
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I noticed few weeks ago that about a half of doc-base files, that
contain non-ASCII characters, is already encoded in UTF-8, while the
other half is latin1. Yeah, this wasn't documented before, but it is
now, as the latest version of the doc-base manual states that doc-base
files should be UTF-8 encoded (see section 2.3.2). Could you please
add check for this to lintian?
Regards,
robert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/pdksh
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.6 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.23-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.1-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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